This week, we pay homage to what is often referred to as the golden era of hip-hop. In the ’90s, there was a well of young musicians who spoke about relevant, pertinent issues. Conscientious, informed, and honest, they painted vivid images of what life in New York was like in…
Talking about being at the right place at the right time: If you’re at Green Room Saturday at 9 p.m. — right up until 11 p.m. — you will be drinking a sizzling elixir — champagne — right next to a giant, metal vagina. That’s for free. You must only…
For those unfamiliar with New York duo Camp Lo, they swept the mid-’90s hip-hop scene up in nostalgic hype with a sound that utilized funky soundtrack samples and a unique brand of indecipherable jive talk, self-described as “black Dadaist slang.” Encompassing all that was cool, black and ’70s, Camp Lo…
Whoa, billy. Foward Motion Records and Dreaming in Stereo’s Fernando Perdomo posted an angry screed on Facebook this morning regarding local press choices for music coverage. Update 11:30 a.m.: It has been removed. Although he does not name names in the posting, the folks tagged include Miami New Times Music…
It’s been slightly less than a year since four-piece indie rock band Goolsby played its final South Florida show at Propaganda in Lake Worth. After that musical farewell, 23-year-old frontman Paul Simundich packed up and headed to the Northeast, where he spent some time in Rhode Island working around the…
Vanilla Ice released his landmark hit “Ice Ice Baby” in 1990, which was when half-pint pop performer Matty B was approximately negative 13 years old. Now an eight-year-old, the young Mr. B hooks up with Robert Van Winkle himself on this song.For the uninitiated, Matty B makes Justin Bieber look…
Melancholic feelings wash over us today as the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) prepares to send its 135th shuttle into space. Weather permitting, the space shuttle Atlantis will commence to make its ascent to the International Space Station at 11:26 a.m. EDT. It will be the last launch…
Now that West Palm indie-rock dynamo Surfer Blood is back in South Florida for a little while before some dates opening for the Pixies, there’s the potential for some local performances. Friday at Lake Park’s Snooze Theatre will be the first. And with local performances, there’s the potential for some…
David Allan Coe is, simply put, a wonderful white-trash poet. (Note, by the way, that his middle name is “Allan” and not “Allen.”) For five decades, his songs have delighted and disgusted fans of country music, hard rock, Americana, and everything in between. At 71, he still tours relentlessly, through…
Taking Back Sunday is riding high on the strength of its new self-titled album, which features the lineup that got everyone telling all their friends about the alt-punks in the first place.We spoke to bassist Shaun Cooper a few months ago, and he was ecstatic about re-forming with frontman Adam…
New Times is thrilled to hear that Miami musician Ricardo Guerrero is making the schlep up to our parts to perform in this week’s installment of Digital Love at the Green Room. Back on May 27, during the last relevant show staged at Lake Worth’s Little Munich, Guerrero’s two-piece, This…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Walter Salas-Humara of the Silos discusses his new album, his connection to South Florida, and his love affair with Arizona. Although Walter Salas-Humara left our local environs early in his career,…
Synth-heavy electro outfit Chromeo has recently unveiled that they will be releasing an EP of remixes. The first offering, available on their official Soundcloud page, was done up by mash-master, Breakbot. While the song immediately calls images of neon-lit nightclub scenes for the nostalgic, we found that the song can…
If you were to mix the arena-style, hard-rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush’s Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge and a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound like Big Business,…
Over the past five years, the Glitch Mob has grown from a West Coast club sensation to an electronic music titan. The Los Angeles-based trio of Josh “Ooah” Mayer, Ed “edIT” Ma, and Justin “Boreta” Boreta were each already established names as solo artists and DJs known for tweaking cutting-edge…
Foursome the Rx Bandits first appeared on the national scene in the mid- to late ’90s as part of a particularly promising class of Southern California ska revivalists — literally. Band founder Matt Embree went to the same Orange County high school as members of at least two other bands…
This show celebrates the birthday of John Wylie, owner of Aces High Tattoo Shop in West Palm Beach, but really a South Florida and hardcore scene legend beyond that. Wylie’s tough-guy roots run deep — he played in approximately a million bands, most notably Morning Again and Where Fear and…
Dubstep’s wobbly grip on the South Florida music scene as a whole has been cemented in recent months as the genre has crept out of the club scene and into larger concert venues. Major bass artists have been no stranger to either the Fillmore Miami Beach or to Revolution, and…
In this week’s main music feature, New Times caught up with Justin Boreta, or just Boreta, of the Los Angeles trio the Glitch Mob. The kind-of-post-hip-hop, kind-of-downtempo, all-electronic, all-awesome group plays Revolution next Tuesday with opening sets from similarly synth-loving but similarly warm acts Phantogram and Com Truise. But while…
Sometimes art imitates life, sometimes the opposite happens, and sometimes YouTube videos depicting it all going down remain unflagged for a couple of days get flagged within hours of us blogging about them and taken down. Rick Ross’ well-publicized Fourth of July kickoff party at the North Miami strip club…
2011 has been a good year for the Beastie Boys. Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 came out, and it’s pretty damned good. Their cameo-infested, 30-minute music video for “Make Some Noise” was one of the most anticipated clips since Music Television’s been off the air. That video was kind of…
Mötley CrüeWith New York Dolls and PoisonHard Rock Live, Hollywood July 5, 2011Better than: Perogies on a rainy day. Last night at the Mötley Crüe show, the tweets from the crowd appeared, typed and all streamed together on the big screens that flank the stage. There were all sorts of…
